rembg
Automatically remove the background from photos.
rembg cuts out people, products and animals and saves a PNG with a transparent background. It also runs without a graphics card.
How to try it
Commands from the official guides – just copy them.
Google Colab
- Download the notebook: colab.ipynb
- Open colab.research.google.com → File → Upload notebook
- Runtime → Change runtime type → GPU (T4)
- Runtime → Run all
Linux
# One-time setup: install uv (package manager for Python, no sudo needed)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh && source $HOME/.local/bin/env
uvx --python 3.12 --from "rembg[cpu,cli]" rembg i -m birefnet-general foto.jpg foto_freigestellt.png
# Result: foto_freigestellt.png with a transparent background (the first run downloads a model of about 1 GB)macOS
# One-time setup: install uv (package manager for Python, no sudo needed)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh && source $HOME/.local/bin/env
uvx --python 3.12 --from "rembg[cpu,cli]" rembg i -m birefnet-general foto.jpg foto_freigestellt.png
# Result: foto_freigestellt.png with a transparent background (the first run downloads a model of about 1 GB)Windows (PowerShell)
# One-time setup: install uv (package manager for Python)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
$env:Path = "$HOME\.local\bin;$env:Path"
uvx --python 3.12 --from "rembg[cpu,cli]" rembg i -m birefnet-general foto.jpg foto_freigestellt.png
# Result: foto_freigestellt.png with a transparent background (the first run downloads a model of about 1 GB)Ask the AI assistant
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